Memi Mahmudah, 2014
The Implementation of Extensive Listening and its Effect on the Students’ Listening Skill Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
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This study is an experimental study which was conducted to determine the possible cause and effect between the independent and dependent variables by
controlling the dependent variable so that there would be an effect in the independent variable Creswell, 2012: 295. The independent variable in this
study is the improvement of the students’ listening skills and the dependent
variable is the use of extensive listening.
1.5. Clarification of the terms
The terms which are going to be defined are: implementation, extensive listening, effect, student, and listening skill.
Implementation is synonymous with ‘the use’ or the action of putting a plan into operation Woodford Jackson, 2003.
Extensive listening is one of listening procedure where a teacher encourages the students to choose for themselves what they listen to and to do so
for pleasure and general language improvement Harmer, 2000; Renandya and Farrel, 2011; Renandya, 2012. The listening activities take place outside the
classroom as the students’ extra assignment. In the classroom, the term extensive listening refers to a sort of performance which aims to develop a top-down, global
understanding of spoken language. Extensive listening performance could range from listening to lengthy lectures, to listening to a conversation and deriving a
comprehensive message or purpose. Extensive listening may require the students to invoke other interactive skills e.g. note-taking, andor discussion for full
comprehension. An effect means the result of a particular influence Woodford Jackson,
2003. Student is a person who is learning at a college or university, or sometimes
at a school Woodford Jackson, 2003. Listening skill is a skill amongst the language skills which occupies an
active and immediate analysis of the streams of sounds Saha Telukdar, 2012. Listening is simply the activity of paying attention and trying to get meaning from
Memi Mahmudah, 2014
The Implementation of Extensive Listening and its Effect on the Students’ Listening Skill Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
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something we hear Underwood, 1989 cited by Wright and Hosbach. It is synonymous with listening comprehension which has a main function in language
learning to facilitate understanding of spoken discourse Richards, 2008
1.6. Purpose of the Study
This study attempts to investigate whether extensive listening procedure has
an effect in the students’ listening skills. It also attempts to find out the students’ attitude towards studying listening in general and also towards the
implementation of extensive listening procedure.
1.7. Significance of the Study
This study is expected to have theoretical and practical significance. Theoretically, this study will give a lot of additional knowledge, information, and
good contribution to the author and also to any other teachers who read this study. And practically, the teaching technique in this study can be used in other
classrooms and other schools because extensive listening is one of teaching techniques that
can be used not only to improve the students’ listening skill, but also another aspect of language including reading, writing, speaking, vocabulary
and grammar.
1.8. Scope of the Study
This study is limited to the use of extensive listening procedure, in which students are encouraged to listen to spoken English as much as possible using
various media of their own choice in their own free time as a treatment to give effect in the improvement of
the students’ listening skill. It is also limited to see the improvement of the students’ listening skill, even though there are many
aspect of language vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation and language skills
